I don’t know that music moves me, but I do tap in to heavy metal when lifting, especially when going heavy. I like to fade out of my head and in to the music and the energy heavy metal gives works for me. I’ve been on a Whitechapel and Job For A Cowboy kick lately.
When I’m just bumming around I usually like red dirt country. Randy Rogers, Jason Boland, Chris Knight et cetera. I like Jason Isbell and The Driveby Truckers a lot. More like homegrown Americana.
The classics are always good. Zep, Ozzy, Hendrix, Stones et cetera. Big Stevie Ray Vaughan fan.
I have a habit of overplaying something and burning out, then coming back to it later so it’s hard to pinpoint a favorite.
Outfield, Play Deep. Spring Break 1987 Daytona Beach. Met my wife while on leave…
Always a great album. When I hear it, still feel like I need a girl in miniskirt, Busch Beer (couldn’t afford anything else on E4 pay) and a balcony overlooking the Atlantic.
Love how music will put you back in a place in time.
Brand New’s music after the first two pop punk albums is something special to me. It is dark and depressing (I’d even say more so than AiC, which I also love). The lyrics are IMO masterfully crafted, and hit me hard. I find I can’t really listen to them for long periods or it starts to impact my mental state negatively.
I also have found a renewed love for the first As I Lay Dying album I heard (frail words collapse). I put this album in a different genre compared to their later work (which I’d classify as metalcore). It has very few clean vocals (I think only a few songs have clean vocals at all on the whole album). I’ve been playing along to that on drums lately, and it is just a lot of fun.
I haven’t really heard many actually good covers of AiC, but I really liked this one. Not at all like Layne (one of my all time favorite singers), but good.
This guy (Dallas Green) used to be the singer for Alexisonfire, which is a badass band IMO.
Watched a Podcast on Eddie V and the working of classical music in his rifts. The guy was a f-ing genius. I also preffered DLR, he was the perfect front man for the techno-musician EVH was. He needed Roth’s persona to get his music out. That early VH and VH2 were classic.
Next one I want to see discussed is the best Work Out Tapes. I submit AC/DC Back in Black the perfect Work Out album.
The first concert my wife attended was Mountain Aire 1986 Calavaras County, California. I took her.
After hours of crappy acts, The Outfield walked on stage. They ended up being one of the best acts I have seen.
Journey was the headliner, they were probably the band then. They were excellent as well.
This is a bit off topic as the performer was not artist, but watched Yesterday with my wife this weekend. I am not a Beatles fan, but the songs they created. I forgot how good they were. Movie was Ok, although I am a sucker for Lilly James period, but the songs it brought out were really mind-blowing. Not rock, but any music fan has to appreciate the skill. Lennon and McCartney could flat out write. Showing my age…
Are you an old-school thrash fan too? I discussed New York hardcore above but it’s not music that stuck with me into middle age the way various metal sub genres have, particularly thrash, death, and some black metal.
The first thrash album I listened to was Peace Sells by Megadeth. That was another album I was blown away by at nine years old. I listened to the “big four” first and then got into others like Testament, Dark Angel, Sodom, Suicidal Tendencies, Forbidden, Nuclear Assault, and so on. There were so many great bands in the late 80’s and early 90’s, including many from NYC (Anthrax was from the town of my high school). I was too young to partake in any music scenes I liked (thrash, death, hardcore), so I just listened.
I am. I have a hard time separating some of the sub genres but I like all the bands you mentioned. I was a big Pantera fan in that era. I had the Far Beyond Driven cassette tape hidden in my bedroom and got grounded when my mom found it. I’ve been a Phil Anselmo fan ever since and followed Dimebag Darrel too.
But yeah, Testsment, Megadeath, Slayer, Anthrax et cetera all make it to playlists.
it was a great show.